Seyed Ghahreman Safavi, Simon Weightman

Rumi's Mystical Design

Reading the Mathnawi, Book One

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This landmark book reveals the structure of Rumī's thirteenth-century classic, the Mathnawī. A beloved collection of 25,000 picturesque, alliterative verses full of anecdotes and parables on what appear to be loosely connected themes, the Mathnawī presents itself as spontaneous and unplanned. However, as Seyed Ghahreman Safavi and Simon Weightman demonstrate, the work has a sophisticated design that deliberately hides the spiritual so that readers, as seekers, have to find it for themselves--it is not only about spiritual training, it is spiritual training. Along with a full synoptic reading of the whole of Book One, the authors provide material on Rumī's life, his religious position, and his literary antecedents. Safavi and Weightman have provided readers, students, and scholars with a valuable resource: the guide that they wished they had had prior to their own reading of this great spiritual classic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781438427959
• ISBN-10: 1438427956
• Artikelnr.: 26440143

Autorenporträt

Seyed Ghahreman Safavi is Research Associate of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London, and Director of the London Academy of Iranian Studies. He is the author of The Structure of Rumī's Mathnawī New Interpretation of the Mathnawī as a Book for Love and Peace. Simon Weightman is Former Head of the Department of the Study of Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London. He is the coauthor (with Rupert Snell) of Hindi.